'We owe them a staggering debt'

Korean War memorial honors fallen soldier

1:12 PM,
Jul. 30, 2013

KY Korea Linden _ Holmes High School Class of 1951 members unveil the statue of classmate Clofus Farris. Farris was one of twenty three Korean War Casualties from Kenton County, being honored during the memorial dedication ceremony at Linden Grove Cemetery on Saturday morning 7/27/2013. _ Greg Loring for The Enquirer.

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Dave Malaska
| Enquirer contributor

The tarp slid away. Onlookers applauded politely. The handful of men standing at the front, now much older than the boys they once were, tried to stand a little straighter. A few stared into the face of the huge bronze monument. Some just bowed their heads, lost for the moment in prayer or the fog of memories.

Covington unveiled its newest memorial Saturday morning, to Korean War veterans on the 60th anniversary of the war's end.

A bronze monument, a six-foot statue of Sgt. 1st Class Clofus "Curly" Farris, who was killed in the final days of the fighting, is the centerpiece of the new Veterans ...